Attack

• Artist: xX_Zara_Xx
• Description: Just some insight on an asthma attack. I find it surprising that not many people understand that asthma is and can be life threatening. I myself have asthma and I always get the disapproving looks when I try to get out of P.E. The thing is, my asthma is really severe, especially without my inhaler to literally save me.
  I've never actually had an attack that made me pass out but I've had several life-threatening ones, so I put this in the fiction catergory lol.
• Date: 12/20/2008
• Tags: asthma

It was a horrible experience, with the world starting to twist and close in, but not yet fading or disappearing into darkness. My chest started to feel tight and it seemed as though something was squeezing as hard as it possibly could. I was choking on nothing as my throat closed up while it felt like something thick was filling up my chest.

My muscles started to constrict in my forearms and I couldn't send any strength to my legs or arms while I fell to the ground trying to claw away at my throat and clothing.
Unable to control any more of my movements as my fingers rubbed hard at the skin at the base of my throat, pulling at nothing but air. Only simple sentences formed in my mind; I can't breathe! Where's my inhaler? Why won't anyone help me? I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe!

Panic filled my gut while my strength completely floated away as I collapsed with the lack of oxygen. My back arched while my neck twisted and spazzed trying to grasp the air it couldn't breathe in.

I can't breathe...

Then, finally, the world dipped into the shadows as I passed out. Confused and shocked faces of unknown people are the last images of my hazy sight.

Comments

[blindmirage]

I was once hospitalized because of my asthma. I almost died. Very good!

[xxHerBloodyValentinexx]

i have asthma too and coach still makes me run the mile... i literally stopped breathing in school one time cuz of that